Sweden Drops Rape Case Against Julian Assange, But He Still Can't Walk Free

May 19, 2017, 12:56 PM

The rape investigation into Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been dropped by Sweden's director of public prosecutions, seven years after the lengthy legal standoff began. But that doesn't mean Assange will be able to walk out of the Ecuadorean Embassy — where he has been claiming political asylum for almost five years — as a free man.